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noun:  a naval raiding expedition led by English Captain John Leake between August and October 1702 that targeted French colonial settlements on the North Atlantic island of Newfoundland and its satellite, Saint Pierre.
noun:  The (French: Expédition à Terre-Neuve, Spanish: Expedición a Terranova) a series of fleet manoeuvres and amphibious landings in the coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador and Saint Pierre and Miquelon carried out by the combined French and Spanish fleets during the French Revolutionary Wars.
noun:  a 1796 Franco-Spanish expedition during the French Revolutionary Wars.
noun:  The Newfoundland Expedition also known as Bernard Drake's Newfoundland Expedition was an English naval expedition that took place during the beginning of the declared Anglo-Spanish War in the North Atlantic during summer and autumn of 1585.Childs p 128-30 The area of conflict was situated mainly in an area known as the Grand Banks off present day Newfoundland.


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